one must put a bad construction
one must put a bad construction, ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἐκλαμβάνοντι Arist. Rh. 1416b10.
The corpus record
κᾰκοηθ-ιστέον
kakoethisteon
one must put a bad construction
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Where it lives
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- κακοηθιστέον · kakoēthisteon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.